Click above or here to see the VUCast segment on the Curb Center’s Studio CRB!  Arts and science student Branden Sanders had a vision when he came to Vanderbilt—to make recording great music more accessible and affordable. Now this Curb Scholar is making that dream a sweet-sounding reality.

Click here to find out more about Studio CRB. To  download some of Vanderbilt student Emma Grager’s songs, go to http://www.emmagrager.com/home.html. And you can find them both on Facebook!

Many thanks to VUCast and Amy Wolfe!

Assistant Director Steven Tepper will present “Right Sizing the Arts: Understanding the Human Dimensions of 21st Century Markets” at the annual performing arts booking, showcasing and professional development conference, Performing Arts Exchange (PAE), managed by South Arts and hosted by a different eastern city each year.

With Music City as a backdrop, this talk will explore how a new generation of artists and musicians are remaking the music industry and taking advantage of the human dimensions of 21st century markets.   What can the nonprofit arts, particularly the presenting and touring sector, learn from these new models and new innovations?

PAE is the primary marketplace and forum for performing arts presenting and touring – artists and work, ideas, learning and information – in the eastern US.  Its purpose is to connect artists with audiences by fostering excellence in all aspects of presenting and touring the performing arts. Learn more about the conference, including registration and schedule information, by clicking here.

]]> http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/2013/05/clayton-begins-filming-for-coursera-course-on-gaming/feed/ 0 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/2013/05/tepper-delivers-commencement-address-at-penn-state/ http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/2013/05/tepper-delivers-commencement-address-at-penn-state/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 14:29:32 +0000 Sara Lee http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/?p=4143 Steven J. Tepper delivered the commencement address on May 4th for Penn State University’s College of Arts and Architecture.  You can read his full speech here.

Dean of the College of Arts and Architecture, Barbara O. Korner, with commencement speaker Steven J. Tepper, and Alumni Society president Fred Bonci

]]> http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/2013/05/tepper-delivers-commencement-address-at-penn-state/feed/ 0 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/2013/03/mfa-is-the-new-mba/ http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/2013/03/mfa-is-the-new-mba/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:46:34 +0000 Ghost Writer http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/?p=4098 Companies all across America are starting to see a critical talent gap as older employees retire. Arts students may not have all the traditional skills, but they have the most important one: creativity.

Steven Tepper writes about this in Fast Company.

Sociologists Richard Pitt and Steven J. Tepper have just released the results of a national study that examines the rise of double majoring on university and college campuses.  With some institutions seeing rates of double majors at or above 50 percent, this timely report explores why students double major, what types of double majors are most prevalent, and how studying two majors impacts students’ academic and extracurricular lives.  The report reveals important insights about the links between double majors and inequality, creativity, and student identity;  it discusses challenges to integrative learning; and it describes how different disciplines — the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and foreign languages – benefit differently from the double major phenomenon.

George Kuh, Chancellor professor emeritus at Indiana University, describes the study as a “thorough an exploration of a phenomenon that for quite some time has been in plain sight but effectively ignored: the nontrivial number of undergraduate students completing requirements for two majors.”

The 5-year study, Double Majors: Influences, Identities, and Impacts, conducted by the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, was supported by a grant from the Teagle Foundation.

Click here to download the full report:

Double Majors:  Influences, Identities, & Impacts

Click here to read an article on the report in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Click here to read a Vanderbilt News Service article on the research and report.

For more information, visit http://3millionstories.com/.

The Center for Second Language Studies, Center for Teaching, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy, and Warren Center’s Digital Humanities Seminar will co-host THATCamp Vanderbilt University.

THATCamp Vanderbilt University will hold workshop sessions on Friday, November 2, that will feature hands-on instruction on various digital humanities tools and topics. The unconference sessions will be held on Saturday, November 3. Faculty, students, staff, librarians, archivists, journalists, technologists, and other interested parties of all skill levels are encouraged to attend. Participation is free, but registration is required and will be available at vanderbilt2012.thatcamp.org/register/

Read more about other THATCamps at thatcamp.org, and to find out just what THATCamp is, check out this page thatcamp.org/about/.